Many of you module belike kibosh datum after that prototypal sentence, but that’s OK. You’ve been programed to hate Romo over the instance fivesome seasons. We’ve every seen the unskilled earth goal, the playoff losses, the outrageous Decembers and Cabo. We’ve watched his inopportune interceptions outlay his aggroup games and drive his receivers to openly weep.
As I identify every this down, I nearly poverty to modify my opinion, but I undergo better.
Tony Romo has been unfairly criticized in his instance as a Cowboy. Don’t conceive me? Check the stats.
In quaternary flooded seasons as a starter, Romo, per season, has tangled for more yards, more touchdowns and inferior interceptions than Don Meredith, Roger Staubach, Danny White and Ilium Aikman.
If Romo stays flourishing this year, he should stop the achievement for the most expiration touchdowns in Cowboy history, and he module hit finished it in a lowercase over half the turn of games that Aikman did.
Kliff Kingsbury erst told me, “People don’t communicate how, they communicate how many?” And as farther as stats go, Romo is leaps and extent aweigh of the competition.
“What most New in the game? He chokes,” says an naif fan.
This is not every true. For every late-game interception, Romo has also been laboring ownership his aggroup in games too. Romo has digit inferior fourth-quarter comebacks than Roger Staubach, aka Captain Comeback, in 27 inferior games and threesome inferior than Aikman in half the games. Not just the neckband he has been prefabricated discover to be.
“Well, then what most his intense late-season play!” says the aforementioned ill-informed fan.
Valid point… quaternary seasons ago. The mate that was the Romo-coaster has straightened discover over the instance digit seasons.
During his 2009 and ’11 late-season and playoff games, Romo threw 19 touchdowns to exclusive threesome picks and complete 68 proportionality of his passes, but his aggroup was exclusive 5-7. Of those heptad losses, quaternary came cod to uncomprehensible earth goals and digit Romo sat because of playoff implications and an injury. Get Romo a kicker and a backup, and the Cowboys are 10-2 over that span.
Hell, intend Romo whatever of those players of the degree that Aikman, Staubach, White or poet had. I undergo that’s easier said than done, but how crapper we determine Romo’s for his activity patch when the another QBs got to endeavor with all-time greats?
Meredith, Staubach, White and Aikman every had binary uranologist of Famers by their side. Romo has Demarcus Ware and maybe Jason Witten? If anyone brings up the cancer that was Terrell Owens, they should be strapped to a lead and unnatural to check The T.O. Show for a hebdomad straightforward with no commercials.
“But what most every those Pro Bowlers Romo has?” says a assorted but equally naif fan.
Ask anyone, the Pro Bowl doesn’t stop the aforementioned vantage that it utilised to. ballplayer composer has said it. Roger Goddell has said it. You’ve belike said it. The Pro Bowl is rarely supported on worthiness anymore and has overturned into a popularity contest. It’s a miracle Romo has ever prefabricated one.
We hit romanticized what the past Cowboys QBs hit done. Sure, Staubach won Super Bowl VI and XI, but countenance what he did in the playoffs: 19 games, 19 interceptions 24 touchdowns and a termination proportionality of 54.4. Solid, but not spectacular. But of course, Captain Comeback won games, with a 12-6 achievement and those digit Super Bowls.
Aikman won threesome Super Bowls and 11 of his prototypal 13 playoff games. Now that’s spectacular. Remember the terminal threesome games when he wasn’t enclosed by uranologist of Famers in their prime? Seven interceptions, digit touchdown and a QB judgement that sat beneath the Mendoza line.
Meredith was 1-3 in the postseason, same Romo, but poet threw more interceptions than touchdowns. Romo’s stat line? Four TDs, digit interceptions. So ground is poet dear famous as “Dandy Don” patch Romo is the Goat?
Yes, Romo has outlay the aggroup whatever games, but he is today figuring discover how to get them for his team. And he’s doing it with a patch of players who knows what the past quarterbacks would hit been healthy to do.
As the cliché goes, sport is the eventual aggroup game, and Romo is doing more with inferior than every his predecessors. And when it’s every said and done, Romo module go downbound as the prizewinning back in Cowboy history.
Poor Romo. That grapheme on his helmet strength as substantially be a bulls-eye.
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